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Good Law Project and Dr Jason Arday
If you do the work we do then being criticised by your enemies comes with the territory - indeed, it’s the most reliable sign of that work succeeding …
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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October 2025
Sixteen thousand deaths - and no action
Dieselgate is one of the crimes of the century - so why no action by the Gove
Oct 13, 2025
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?
A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past…
Oct 7, 2025
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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September 2025
Burnham's pathway to the Leadership
I read Labour's rulebook - and here's what I found
Sep 23, 2025
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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May 2024
Whose Side is the Law On?
My Keynote Lecture from 17 May 2024 at the Open University's Annual Festival on Global Challenges and Social Justice.
May 17, 2024
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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December 2023
Coming soon
This is What the Law Does.
Dec 5, 2023
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Jolyon Maugham KC
April 2020
Does the Job Retention Scheme apply to casual workers?
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Apr 18, 2020
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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November 2019
A culture lives in its language or dies in a museum
My speech at the Rali dros enw uniaith Gymraeg i’r Senedd [Rally for a Welsh-only name for the Senedd]
Nov 9, 2019
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Jolyon Maugham KC
October 2019
How to get Brexit done by 31 October
The Prime Minister has made his "take it or leave it" offer to the EU - but it is far from clear that either the EU or Parliament will find it…
Oct 2, 2019
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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September 2019
The flaw in the Benn Act
There is a flaw in the European Union (Withdrawal) (No.2) Act 2019 (the "Benn Act") and, if MPs want to avoid us leaving without a deal, they may need…
Sep 15, 2019
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Jolyon Maugham KC
Inclusive Ownership Funds - is the FT's analysis correct?
On Monday, as we moved one step closer to a General Election, the FT launched a brutal attack on a flagship Labour policy. Labour, in one of “the…
Sep 4, 2019
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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August 2019
Is No Deal unlawful?
The updated written pleadings in the case brought by over seventy Parliamentarians to prevent Boris Johnson treating Parliament as an inconvenience he…
Aug 28, 2019
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Jolyon Maugham KC
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